These are factors that influence people to leave their country AND come to a country.
What are PUSH/PULL FACTORS?
100
The U.S. government, under President Lincoln followed by President Johnson, implements laws to rebuild the South and provide civil rights to freed slaves after this war.
What is the CIVIL WAR?
100
President Jefferson acquired this area of land from the French, which doubled the size of the U.S. at the time.
What is the LOUISIANA PURCHASE?
100
This is the location where Asian immigrants, such as the Chinese and Japanese entered the U.S.
What is ANGEL ISLAND?
100
Many Irish immigrated to the U.S. following this food shortage caused by blight, a disease that destroys plants.
What is THE GREAT POTATO FAMINE?
200
This is a document or physical object, such as a photo or quotation, which was written or created during the time under study.
What is A PRIMARY SOURCE?
200
This constitutional amendment abolishes slavery.
What is the THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT?
200
Following the Indian Removal Act of 1830, thousands of Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Muscogee, and Chicasaw died during this forced relocation from their homes to allow for white settlement.
What is the Trail of Tears?
200
This is public sentiment against immigrants, which greatly arose by Western/Northern Europeans against Southern/Eastern European, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican immigrants over issues of religion and labor.
What is NATIVISM?
200
This is a cartoon technique using objects to stand for a larger idea, whereas this is a cartoon technique overstating a detail to make a point.
What is SYMBOLISM and EXAGGERATION?
300
This is the process used to describe a country as a "melting pot", where immigrants are expected to completely blend in and adopt the new language, identity, and culture.
What is ASSIMILATION?
300
From the 1880s to 1960, states pass these to legally allow public facilities to be segregated.
What are Jim Crow laws?
300
Fought at sea, near Canada, and in the American South, this War further established the U.S.'s independence from Britain.
What is the WAR OF 1812?
300
These five countries supplied the old immigrants.
What is England, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden?
300
This is a small community of immigrants that is formed to preserve their common culture (shared customs, food, language).
What is AN ENCLAVE?
400
This is the process of judging someone else’s culture with the assumption that yours is superior.
What is ETHNOCENTRISM?
400
This amendment was created to give all citizens, especially the newly freed slaves, equal protection under the law and to establish that African Americans were indeed citizens, as well as children born to non-native parents.
What is the FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT?
400
After the U.S. annexes Texas, this is a military conflict to expand the borders of the U.S. further southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War?
400
The old immigrants were of THIS branch of Christianity, which clashed with THIS branch of Christianity of the new Irish immigrants.
What is Protestant(ism) and Catholicism?
400
RAMBI is an acronym which stands for this, which we use to evaluate the credibility of a source.
What is RELIABILITY, ACCURACY, MOTIVE, BIAS, and IMMEDIACY?
500
This is the process by which the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether a law is constitutional (agrees with the U.S. Constitution) or not.
What is JUDICIAL REVIEW?
500
Though the federal government passes the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments that supposedly give freed slaves more rights, the state governments pass these laws that unfairly punish freed African Americans for minor crimes, resulting in "slavery by another name".
What is Black Codes or Pig Laws?
500
Following the War of 1812, the U.S. issues this foreign policy warning European countries not to further colonize the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
Immigration had two major effects, which included THIS due to cheap labor, and THIS due to growing city populations.
What is INDUSTRIALIZATION and URBANIZATION?
500
Democrats and Republicans are the two major political parties representing the contrasting views of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson who disagree on this.
What is THE ROLE/SIZE OF THE FEDERAL/CENTRAL GOVERNMENT?